A study on transparent access to medical information by implementing automatic authentication in emergency situations

Abstract

In this paper, we designed and implemented an automatic authentication for accessing medical information and IoTs based biometric information through user-owned mobile terminals. The medical information server determines whether patient’s healthcare situation is a normal status or an emergency status by using IoTs based biometric information, according to a given disease-specific emergency status condition defined by hospital policies. As soon as the emergency status for a patient is determined, the medical staff (user) receives an emergency notification message service notification with an emergency code from the medical information server. The authentication procedures of user and user’s mobile terminal is automatically performed by sending to the authentication server with a text message composed only of the user password including the defaulted ID, emergency code and mobile terminal’s current location. Finally, if a patient is in a normal state after a successful first-aid with the authentication confirmation of the medical staff, the authorized access of the authorized medical staff also returns to a normal state.